Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1887-09-16
WEEKLY GRAPHIC
kIRKsvILLE. MO.
I. E. Sublette. Proprietor

projected railroad link, Duluth
will be by rail two hundred miles
nearer San Francisco than Chicago
is. On old lines already in oper.
alton Cheyenne is also much
nearer than Chicago TO the Golden
Gate.
The tendency of New York
publishers of books and monthlies
to group their offices between
Astor Place and Union Square,
has its most recent illustrator in
the removal of The American
Magazine from downtown to
commodious quarters at 749 Broad
way.
The decision of tie lower
court against the International
distillery of Des Moines, holding
that the sale of intoxicating liquors
for exports from the state for gen.
cral purposes is illegal, has been
affirmed by the supreme court of
Iowa. Justice Sewer and Reed
dissented.
There are seventy students
more enrolled at the Normal now
than there were at this time last
year. Forty three counties of
Missouri and seven states, are rep
resented. The indications are
that over five hundred will be in
attendance during the year.
The Illinois Supreme court
rendered its decision in the anar
chist case Wednesday morning.
The decision of the lower court
was affirmed, and Spies, Schwab,
Parsons, Engel, Lingg, Fielden
and Fischer were sentenced to be
hung Nov. 11th. Their Attorney
will take the case to the United
States Supreme Court.
We invite attention to the
advertisement of the Kirksville
Mercantile College, ON our eighth
page. Too much can not be said in
praise of this institution. No edu-
cation is complete without a
thorough business course, end
every young man and woman of
Northeast Missouri, should avail
themselves of the excellent advant-
age offered by this institution.
The clerk of the supreme
court in New York city has very
properly refused to take Johann
Most's declaration of intention to
become a citizen. Most is an
avowed anarchist, and it is matter
of public notoriety, through his
own speeches and publications,
that he is not the sort of person
Who can become a good citizen or
honestly take the oath of a citizen
with intent to keepit.
The commissioner of agri-
culture, Mr. Coleman, is delighted
with the success of the sugar man
ufacture of Kansas and New
Jersey, The sorghum, by a new
process, is made to yield 1000 to
l,5O0 pounds of sugar per acre. |
AS the country imports 100000,
600 worth of sugar a year, the
commissioner is as confident as
Colonel Sellers that there's mil
lions in his home sugar-making
scheme.
The inhabitants of Trapani,
ltlay, are apparently as ignorant
and vicious as those of Montreal, |
who two years ago, mobbed the
authorities for attempting to stop
the smallpox epidemic by vacci-
nation. In Trapani three soldiers
were lately sent out to disinfect
the streets with carbolic acid. A
mob forced one of them to drink
the acid, and he died. The others
refused, and were murdered.
The expert appointed by
the county court of Livingston
county to examine the books of
the ex-circuit clerk, ex-sheriff and
ex-trersurer of that county made
his report last week His state
ment shows that the accounts of
the ex-treasurer are all right, but
he found balance of S3,S25.26
due the county from the ex-sheriff
and S5,72S.65 due from the ex-
circuit clerk, or total of ten
thousand dollars. The books of